Great Britain

Prince Albert’s Light Infantry

The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

	Kingdom of England
1685:	Earl of Huntingdon’s Regiment of Foot │
1688:	Ferdinand Hasting’s │
1695:	John Jacob’s │
1702:	Earl of Barrymore’s │ │	Edward Fox’s Regiment of Marines │
1704:	│ │	Jacob Bor’s │
1706:	Pearce’s Regiment of Dragoons │	│ │ │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1707:	Earl of Barrymore’s Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │
1714:	│ │ │	Jacob Bor’s Regiment of Foot │
1715:	Stanhope Cotton’s │	│ │
1723:	│ │	Charles Dubourgay’s │
1725:	Mark Kerr’s │	│ │
1732:	John Middleton’s │	Thomas Paget’s │
1738:	│ │	Simon Descury’s │
1739:	Harry Pulteney’s │	│ │
1740:	│ │	John Huske’s │
1741:	│ │ │	│ │ │	John Price’s Regiment of Foot │
1743:	│ │	Henry Skelton’s │	Thomas Murray’s │
1745:	│ │	William Douglas’s │	│ │
1747:	ranked as 13th Foot │	ranked as 32nd Foot │	ranked as 57th Foot │
1747:	│ │	Francis Leighton’s │	│ │
1751:	13th Regiment of Foot │	32nd Regiment of Foot │	46th Regiment of Foot │
1756:	│ │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1758:	│ │	2nd Bn → 71st Foot │	│ │
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1782:	13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot │	32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot │	46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot │
1800:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn raised │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1802:	│ │	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1804:	│ │	2nd Bn raised │	│ │
1814:	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │
1822:	13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1842:	13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │ │	│ │ │ │
1858:	2nd Bn raised │ │ │	32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) │	│ │ │ │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Bn,    2nd Bn,	1st Bn,	2nd Bn,
	The Somersetshire Regiment (Prince Albert’s Light Infantry) │
	Prince Albert’s Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment)	The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
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1881:	Prince Albert’s (Somersetshire Light Infantry) │	│ │ │
1912:	Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry) │	│ │ │
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1920:	The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s) │	│ │ │
1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1948:	2nd Bn disbanded │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1948:	part of The Light Infantry Brigade │	part of The Light Infantry Brigade │
1959:	1st Battalion, The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
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1968:	1st Battalion, The Light Infantry
	part of The Light Division │
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1993:	disbanded